Vulcanized fabric from gums and ramie and similar fibers



UNITED STATES PATENT QFFrcE,

IVILLIAM A. TORREY, OF MONTOLAIR, NEI/V JERSEY.

VULCANIZED FABRIC FROM GUIVIS AND RAIVIIE AND SIMILAR FIBERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent; No. 354,993, dated December 28, 1886. Application filed April 5, 1886. Serial No. 197,855. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. TORREY, of Montclair, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Manufacture of Articles Made by the Application of India-Rubber, Gutta Percha, and other Vulcanizable Gums to Ramie or Similar Textile Fabrics, such as belting, hose, clothing, and the like; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof.

Belting, packing, hose, clothing, and like articles have heretofore been manufactured by the application of compounds prepared for vulcanization upon cloth or fabric made of cotton, flax, linen, or silk.

The nature of my invention consists in applying indiarubber, gutta percha, or any other vulcanizable gums to cloths or fabrics made of ramie, rhea, pita, or other cactus plants.

Itis but recently that cloth has been manufactured from ramie, and the result has proved that articles manufactured from this fiber have a tensile strength equal at least to six times that 'of cotton, flax, or hemp. Goods made from other cactus plants, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination of indie-rubber, guttapercha, or any vulcanizable gums with rhea,

(or ramie,) pita,or other cact'us'plants, for the purpose and in the manner described.

3. The improved vulcanized goods and fabrics composed of rarnie, pita, or cactus, textilefiber, and a vulcanizable gum, substantially as set forth.

WILLIAM A. TOR REY.

Witnesses:

W. W. ROWLEY, E. M. MrLEs, 

